Wednesday, 30 September 2009 Women and Food Insecurity in Africa
It may come as a surprise to some but my mother (in Africa) owns our land just as much as my father does. According to the Western legal and land registry system, my father has the legal title to our land. He can sell it,use it...
Saturday, 12 September 2009 Crop Production: Wider Stewardship Needed
Healthy discussions on whether climate change is human induced or not, have led to widening the scope of stewardship. The impact of dramatic warming or cooling of the earth can be so devastating on crops. Pests are likely to...
Monday, 31 August 2009 Africa's Famine: Case of Drought or Malware?
When one talks about famine in Africa, it is also crucial to take a moment to evaluate the hostile and intrusive programs operating in the background of food aid and aid in general.
Monday, 10 August 2009 Food Ideology Making Millions Go Hungry
Now Europe wants to go organic having tried all things science, Africa wants to try science having remained hungry in all things organic.
Monday, 27 July 2009 No Till Farming and Climate Change
In Kenya, it has taken dry city taps, reduced water levels in hydro power stations and drought for the media to focus on the link between human activities and climate change. In the context of crop farming, I did a little search...
Monday, 13 July 2009 Food Security Deserves Global Attention
My recent visit to a farming village in Zambia triggered questions in my mind about the elusive goal of development in Africa. The village resembled my childhood one of 1977 in western Kenya. Land was plenty and all one needed to...
Saturday, 20 June 2009 GM: Why Stewardship is Important
The article GM Should Not Just be Dismissed, Nor Just Accepted (16 June, IPS) reports of hybrid white maize failure in South Africa that affected an estimated 82,000 hectares due to under-fertilization in the laboratory,...
Friday, 05 June 2009 Farmers cannot give what they don’t have!
Reggae fans must be familiar with Lucky Dube’s song that goes in part: “Blessed is the hand that giveth… Than the one that taketh.” Ever since the global economy hit a slow down, the quest for a new world order has dominated...
Tuesday, 19 May 2009 Technology and Land grabs: Redefining peasantry
I came across the word "peasant" as a small boy in 1979. That was my second year of being introduced to the English language when Kenya government Census officials came knocking on our door. And with them, they had two big...
Tuesday, 05 May 2009 Economic Recession: Farmers have Answers
As experts grapple with strategies to save their economies from the wrath of economic slow down; I propose they visit farmers for answers. The ongoing economic recession is driven by both toxic debts and credit crunch. It is...